Retrograde Mechanica

Thursday, 14 June 2012

NSRA Gt Billing

Hot Rods, a few bikes, Raleigh Choppers.....a good day!

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Messin' with the CL

Cored the pipes and chopped em back a bit, Tanks ready for paint, wheels are now ready for the vintage ANS tyres....she's coming along!

Saturday, 9 June 2012

Marks new project

It's a disease i tell ya!

Gonna be killer fella.

Friday, 8 June 2012

Thanks Adi

Print looks great!, the house looks a little wonky tho....

99seconds

Terry........

Just found this pic........sambuca fella, that's all I'm saying........Still, kudos for riding that morning with a hangover and a gummy arm after falling down the stairs drunk!

At the weekend we got a little tipsy, not sure the neighbours would have enjoyed my friends (not me) wanting to hear a T140 chop being started around 4am...........no other details of the evening need to be printed here...

Thursday, 7 June 2012

99seconds

Ordered a print from Adi of 99 seconds, great guy - great artist! - Check out his work Here!

Nearly that time again Margo.....

Yep, nearly time for being mauled in a campsite and breaking down on the way back from the Hot Rod Hayride.......awesome!

Terry's ol' pre-unit

A little while back RM's own Terry sold his stunning home built pre-unit to Burlen Fuels, who're now using it to promote Amal Carbs..........If you look closely, you can see that lovely big GP carb they stuck on there.
Not sure how it'd run on the road with that bad boy, but damn it purrrdy!

Shame you let this one go Terrance, I loved it!

On the doorstep this Morning.......

Lavatory reading.....Skill!

Mr Woodwards been out tearing up Brighton in the sun.

The Sr's looking killer fella! Must get down to Brighton soon!

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Some days, just some days...pedal power is best!

Benny's Chicken Poo - Up for Sale

This bike Haunts my dreams, I love it!, just perfect..........buy it and have a happy life, and a smelly bike.

Details at the awesome D-T-F-P

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

hmmmmm Car Drivers!

Going through some random old pics and found this, I nearly forgot what happens when you're sat at a roundabout minding your own, when some ******* idiot car driver is on the phone. This was last year, whilst heading to the NSRA show at billing aquadrome.....This years is next weekend, I'm hoping for better luck!

Billy's got a Knuck! - Gonna be skill fella, proper skill.

That's a patient missus you got there - See you in July chap!

1 down - lots more summer madness to go!

"Not everyone understands what a completely rational process this is, this maintenance of a motorcycle. They think it's some kind of a "knack" or some kind of "affinity for machines" in operation. They are right, but the knack is almost purely a process of reason, and most of the troubles are caused by what old time radio men called a "short between the earphones," failures to use the head properly. A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself"

"That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. There's no part in it, no shape in it, that is not out of someone's mind — number three tappet is right on too. One more to go. This had better be it — .I've noticed that people who have never worked with steel have trouble seeing this...that the motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon. They associate metal with given shapes...pipes, rods, girders, tools, parts...all of them fixed and inviolable, and think of it as primarily physical. But a person who does machining or foundry work or forge work or welding sees "steel" as having no shape at all. Steel can be any shape you want if you are skilled enough, and any shape but the one you want if you are not. Shapes, like this tappet, are what you arrive at, what you give to the steel. Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone's mind. That's important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone's mind. There's no steel in nature. Anyone from the Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind! — Ghosts"